MOREHEAD, Ky. -- The Morehead State baseball team's season may have ended last Wednesday, but for 17 Eagles, a new season is on the horizon as collegiate summer leagues begin play in early June. The Eagles finished 27-27 in 2022 after falling in a thriller to Tennessee Tech on May 25, but with most of the starting lineup, starting rotation, and bullpen arms returning next season, Morehead State is in a great position to capture their fifth OVC Tournament title in 2023. 

Returning as juniors in 2023, 1B Jackson Feltner (First-Team All OVC) and CF Ryley Preece will suit up together for the Bluefield Ridge Runners of the Appalachian League, a wood bat circuit. They'll face a familiar foe in that league, as their teammate and returning sophomore RHP Trevor Callahan will take the mound for the Elizabethton River Rats. 

Four members of the Eagle baseball team are heading to the CPL (Coastal Plain League), as SS Colton Becker (Morehead City), LHP Branden Blankenship (Tri City Chili Peppers), RHP Jarrett Miller (Macon Bacon), and RHP Sam Replogle (Macon Bacon) are traveling south for the summer. 

Three RHPs who started on multiple occasions for Mik Aoki and Brady Ward will team up together in the New England Collegiate Baseball League this summer as members of the Winnipesaukee Muskrats. Luke Helton (2022 team leader in innings pitched), Alex Kafka, and Joe Rotkis will throw all over the Northeast United States in the coming months before returning to Morehead for the 2023 season. 

In the Northern League, OF/DH Roman Kuntz, C Carter Sakamoto, and OF Jacob Ferry are heading to Ohio to suit up for the Lake County Corndogs this summer.

The final three Eagles playing summer ball will be lone wolves, as RF Chase Vinson (Prospect League), C Eli Kirkendoll (Grand Park Summer League), and LHP Andrew Crumbley (Palm Beach Diamond Ducks, South Florida CBL) head out on their own to their respective teams before returning to Morehead, Ky., for the Fall 2022 semester. 

After the summer, Fall Ball is next on the schedule for the Eagles before kicking off the 2023 season.